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IDEATIONAL MEANINGS
•Halliday (1994, p.xiii) state, language is structured to make three
kinds of meaning (metafunctions) simultaneously, namely ideational,
interpersonal, and textual meanings.
IDEATIONAL MEANINGS
• Derewianka (2011, p.13): "one important function of language
is to enable us to represent what is going on in the world; to
talk about our experience, to reflect on our observations, to
share knowledge and ideas."
--- Thus, the ideational meaning is a meaning that concerns with
how language functions to represent experiences, so the
function of the clause is as representation.
• Gerot and Wignell (1994, p.12): "ideational meanings are
meanings about phenomena-about things (living and non –
living, abstract and concrete), about goings-on (what the
things are or do) and the circumstances surrounding these
happenings and doings."
---- These meanings are realized in wordings through
participants, processes, and circumstances.
PARTICIPANT
Material Actor, Goal, Scope, Attribute, Client, Recipient
Mental Senser, Phenomenon
Verbal Sayer, Receiver, Verbiage
Existential Existent
Relational Carrier/Attribute, Token/Value
Behavioural Behaver, Behaviour
Meteorological
•Meteorological clauses construe a participant involved in the
earth's atmosphere and its changes, used primarily for forecasting
weather. Also, they can be used to indicate time.
•In meteorological processes, there is only one participant,
'Meteorological' and the word 'it' has no represented function, but
does provide a subject
For example:
It‘s windy
Meteorological
•In meteorological processes there is only one participant,
‘Meteorological’ and the word ‘it’ has no represential function,
but does provides a subject.
CIRCUMSTANCES
According to Gerot and Wignell (1994, p.52-53), "circumstances
answer such question as to when, where, why, how, how many,
and as what."
Circumstances rely on meanings about:
•Extent: tells How long? (duration); How far (spatial distance)
•Location: tells When? (Temporal); Where? (spatial)
•Manner: tells How? With What? (means); How) How –ly?
(quality); What ... like? (comparison)
•Cause: describes Why? (cause); What for (reason); Who for
(behalf)
•Accompaniment: tells With whom?
•Matter: tells What about?
•Role: tells What as?
References and Recommended Readings
•Celce-Murcia, M., Dörnyei, Z., & Thurrell, S. (1995).
Communicative competence: A pedagogically motivated model
with content specifications. Issues in Applied linguistics, 6(2), 5-
35.
•Downing, A., & Locke, P. (2006). English grammar: A
university course. Routledge.
•Eggins, S. (1994). An Introduction Systemic Functional
Linguistics. London: Pinter Publisher Ltd.
•Gerot, L., & Wignell, P. (1994). Making Sense of Functional
Grammar-Sydney: Gerd Stabler.
•Halliday, M.A.K. (1985). An Introduction to Functional
Grammar. London: Edward Arnold.
• Halliday, M.A.K., & Matthiessen, C.M.I.M. (2004). An
Introduction to Functional Grammar. London: Arnold
• Lock, G. (1996). Functional English Grammar: An
Introduction for Second Language Teachers.Cambridge:
Cambridge UP.
• Martin, J. R. (1992). English Text–Systems and Structure.
Philadelphia; Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Slade, D., & Eggins, S. (1997). Analysing Casual
Conversation. London: Cassell.